#stay tuned for potentially another run on sentence about how sokka is possibly one of the greatest minds of his time

[eldritch-m0th]

atla fans, we always talk about zuko’s character development but i never hear anyone appreciate Sokka’s character development of learning to respect women. It sounds silly and in the show his sexism is played for laughs quite a bit but i think its important ya know. Its not easy to unlearn prejudices like that and he did it with his circumstances stacked against him. he was raised in a very divided culture, women stayed home and took care of the house and children and men did everything else. the men of his village left for war and he was left as ‘the man of the house’ at a young age. he’s an older brother with a sister who has abilities could get her killed, that got their mother killed. he’s not sexist in that he’s better than women he was just raised to believe that women needed to be protected and that it was his job to do so. this doesn’t go away just because Suki kicked his butt a few times. he needed constant reminders, in the form of Katara’s independence mainly, that not all women were people who needed protecting and also that they were people who could protect him